Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Technical Reference

Chapter 8 Search Attributes: Reports

This chapter explains the attributes available for Search Reports. This chapter contains the following sections:

Introduction

The Reports section allows you to monitor your search server. You can see a summary of its activity: what sites were searched, what URLs were excluded and why, detailed information about URLs visited by the robot, and what your end users are interested in.

Excluded URLs

This page shows a list of robot runs. To display a list of reasons URLs were excluded, set a date, select Show, then select one of the Reasons for Exclusion. Displayed is a list of the excluded URLs for that reason. Duplicate and warning exclusions have been removed.

The table below lists Reports Excluded URLs attributes and their description.

Table 8–1 Reports Excluded URLs Attributes


Attribute	Default Value	Description
Count	Numbers	List of numbers with reasons for exclusion.
Reason for Exclusion	List of reasons sites have not been allowed. Each reason is linked to a list of all the URLs that were excluded for that reason.	Filter rules, file not found, site not allowed, protocol not allowed, errors, duplication are some of the reasons URLs were excluded.

Advanced Robot Reports

When you click the Advanced Robot Reports tab under Reports, you will get the Robot Report Files page. This page gives you access to a number of different reports from the robot. Select from a drop down list to get information for chosen report to show up. The Refresh button gets the current information.

The table below lists the Reports Robot Report Files attributes and their description.

Table 8–2 Robot Report Files Attributes


Attribute	Default Value	Description
Reports	Blank	Overview, Version, Configuration, Performance, Database, Libnet, Modules, DNS Cache Dump, All Servers Found, URLs-Ready For Extraction, URLs-Ready For Indexing, URLs- Waiting For Filtering (URL pool), URLs- Waiting for Indexing.

Log Files

This page allows you to view the entries or specific lines from a log file. Drop down list of log files. Enter the number of lines you want to be displayed when you select Show button.

The table below lists the Reports View Log Files attributes and their description.

Table 8–3 Reports —> Log Files Attributes


Attribute	Default Value	Description
Log File	Blank	Excluded URLs (filter), RD Manager (rdmgr), RDM Server (rdmsvr), Robot Activities (robot), Search Engine (searchengine), User Queries (rdm).
Lines to show	25	A number you can enter to display the most current entries in the log file.

Attribute	Default Value	Description
Filter	All Items	All Items includes what categories users browse in. Exclude Browse excludes browsing statistics.

Search Server Log Settings

You can set the log level for all the server log settings attributes listed in the table below in the /var/opt/SUNWportal/searchservers/search1/config/SearchLogConfig.properties file.The table lists the Search Server Log Settings attributes and their description.

Table 8–5 Search Server Log Settings Attributes


Attribute	Default Value	Description
Search (rdm)	/var/opt/SUNWportal/searchservers/search1/ logs/rdm.log	Logs the queries end users make of the database.
Index Maintenance	/var/opt/SUNWportal/searchservers/search1/ logs/searchengine.log	Logs the transactions involving the search engine, except for not registration of resource descriptions.
RD Manager	/var/opt/SUNWportal/searchservers/search1/ logs/rdmgr.log	Logs the registration of resource descriptions from the robot or import agents into the database. You can view this log as a RD Manager (`rdmgr`) report.
RDM Server	/var/opt/SUNWportal/searchservers/search1/ logs/rdmserver.log	Logs debugging information on RDM transactions. The level of detail is controlled by the Log Level. You can view this log as a RDM Server (`rdmsvr`) report.

The possible levels of all the above logs are SEVERE, WARNING, INFO, FINE, FINER, and FINEST.